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Re: Construction Toy Grading Standards Now Live!
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Wed, 31 Oct 2001 00:34:07 GMT
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In lugnet.market.appraisal, Ross Crawford writes:
> c /could/couldn't/
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> or
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> c /could care less/could care less, but not much,/
Trust me, if I ever say "could care less" there's an IMPLIED "but not much
less" tacked on there....
(I am reminded, completely non apropos, of "Ending a sentence with a
preposition is something up with which I will not put." Can you name the
speaker?)
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| (...) 8?) (...) It's rumoured that it was an English, cigar-smoking prime minister, however it was actually Sir Ernest Gowers in "Plain words" (1948), who started the anecdote with "It is said that Churchill...". So the correct answer's not all that (...) (24 years ago, 31-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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